Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohio

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year ! Thank You for Stopping by!

All Saints Cemetery, Babyland Section, Northfield, Ohio

Thanking all of those who have contributed to this blog over the past year.

Thanking you, the readers, who have so kindly stopped by to visit.

Thanking the wonderful "Find A Grave" photo volunteers for their work fulfilling gravestone photo requests and posting gravestone photos to memorials.

Thanking all those who have brought awareness of the needs of so many cemeteries in Ohio that have remained for so long neglected and almost forgotten about -- except by you. Without you, these cemeteries and the gravesites they contain would be totally forgotten and lose their identity.

May your dedicated efforts on their behalf continue to succeed.

The year 2015 will bring new cemetery preservation challenges to overcome, but they will not be so great as to overshadow the new opportunities that await us to recognize and grasp.
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May your opportunities be boundless!

Poem by Lorain, Ohio native Helen Steiner Rice who was buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Lorain.

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

The Gravesite of Revolutionary War Veteran, Pvt. Robert Dickey, will be Marked by a Hand Carved Gravestone Created by Notable Indiana Carver, Casey Winningham

Thanking Scott Andersen for sharing two photographs (shown below) of the Robert Dickey gravestone that was recently hand carved by well-known Indiana carver, Mr. Casey Winningham.

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The gravestone recreates an original design with detailed carved motifs and inscription appropriate for the date of death time period.
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Rev. War veteran, Robert Dickey, was buried at the Dean Cemetery, in Buckskin Township, Ross County, Ohio.

Abstracted from the "Find A Grave" Memorial of Robert Dickey:

"Revolutionary War Patriot.
Light horseman in Capt Thomas Kirkpatrick's Company, Col Tom Bratton's Regiment in South Carolina.
Member of the 2nd Provincial Congress, 1775-1776.
Born in Albermarle County, Virginia.
Son of John Dickey and Martha McNeeley, both of Ireland."

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(Two views of the Pvt. Robert Dickey Gravestone)